All 3 Uses of
acquiesce
in
The Mill on the Floss
- It is easy enough to spoil the lives of our neighbors without taking so much trouble; we can do it by lazy acquiescence and lazy omission, by trivial falsities for which we hardly know a reason, by small frauds neutralized by small extravagances, by maladroit flatteries, and clumsily improvised insinuations.†
Chpt 1.3acquiescence = reluctant compliance
- I am not sure that he would not have longed for the quarrelling again, if it had ceased for an entire week; and it is certain that an acquiescent, mild wife would have left his meditations comparatively jejune and barren of mystery.†
Chpt 1.12 *acquiescent = reluctant compliance; or inclined to comply
- Every influence tended to lull her into acquiescence.†
Chpt 6.13acquiescence = reluctant compliance
Definition:
reluctant or unenthusiastic compliance, consent, or agreement